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Some comments that were part of school board votes for next year's schools budget warrant explaining. Members of the Hampton and Newport News school boards disclosed that they had an interest in the budgets because their spouses work in the school district. The budgets contained salaries and raises for schools employees. In Newport News, the board voted on the budget separately from the salary of the wife of board member Gary Hunter, and Hunter voted to approve the budget. He abstained from the voting on his wife's salary, which his fellow board members approved as a standalone item. In Hampton, board members Butch Harper, Joe Kilgore and Jason Samuels read statements...

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Some comments that were part of school board votes for next year's schools budget warrant explaining.
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Lafayette High football players Cheyton Pine and Brandon Villianueva-Pernell are moving closer to Division I football futures. Pine has picked up his second D-I, from Old Dominion University, while Villianueva-Pernell will look to improve his Division I...

NEWPORT NEWS — It was the highest-profile piece of undeveloped land in the city — and the value of the 44 acres at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Oyster Point Road has plunged and soared with developer John R. Lawson's ability to negotiate a good...

"Employee of the Year," a romantic comedy set in Norfolk and created by all local talent, will have its premiere on Saturday at the Old Dominion University Theatre.
It is, among other things, the second feature by writer-director...

Home sales continue to grow across the state and Hampton Roads, but it may be too early to call it a return to the 2005 and 2007 seller's market, according to an area economist.
"The market is improving," said Gary Wagner, Strome College of...

Hispanics in the local student population have at least doubled in every Peninsula locality over the past decade, creating the need for more support services and outreach to them and their families.
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Join Sister Cities of Newport News (SCNN) on Saturday, March 21, 2015 from 10 am to 1 pm at the Brittingham-Midtown Community Center for the 8th Annual Global Bee International Quiz.
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